auxillary vs bluetooth

[blowthemup 10+ year member]

Have a deh80-prs by pioneer, im about to upgrade phones and have a few questions about source inputs. With my old android phone I had no usb support for so I always used bluetooth for pandora and my ipod through usb. Switched to an iphone 5 and now have pandora and music through usb which is great but I lost the bluetooth calling. Tried multiple android phones, a iphone 5c and 6 and they work fine on bluetooth calling. Trying to make up my mind between android or apple for my upgrade so i can get back to using bluetooth calling. Needing to know how the audio quality would be using the auxiliary input with an android phone? How does auxiliary compare to usb? Never was much of an iphone guy but not wanting to sacrifice audio quality by choosing the wrong phone for my needs if you know what I mean.

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[adulbrich 5,000+ posts]

Bluetooth and auxiliary are both sub-par imo.

I only use USB and CD's. I would never use bluetooth in my car.

 

[blowthemup 10+ year member]

Being pioneer is more iphone friendly I should probably go with a new iphone for usb compatibility then. I dont like the idea of sub par audio quality. Ill leave the bluetooth for phone calls only //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[bradl79 10+ year member]

If u use android, root and download Viper4Android and that help improves the quality a lot

 

[blowthemup 10+ year member]

Not interested in using 3rd party apps or any additional software. The deh80-prs has great dac converters and would hate to send them anything but clean unaltered music.

Leaning towards a new iphone 6 or 6plus.

 

[The Camry]

IPod is what I use. Or you could run a flash drive

 

[blowthemup 10+ year member]

If I move away from iphone i loose pandora over usb and i use pandora a good bit.

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

aux and BT are both full 20hz to 20khz, the quality is from the file.

 

[bradl79 10+ year member]

I noticed I get better and louder songs from my aux port and flash drive bc of 3rd party Viper4Android, using FLAC files

 

[adulbrich 5,000+ posts]

Pandora is streaming music, so I wouldn't use that either. Lots of people do though